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It's official. The toothy, smiling "Chief Wahoo" cartoon logo used as a mascot by the schools in far southwest suburban Channahon has been officially retired. In its place, the children of the Channahon school district voted in favor of a profile of a more dignified Indian wearing a headdress with a large letter "C" (for Channahon, of course) in the background. The School Board of Channahon School District 17 decided last month to get rid of the old logo, which they said showed little respect for Native Americans.

Don't be all talk when it comes to fashion - try a look that everyone will be talking about: Tooth Art! Two dentists have taken body art to a new extreme with these temporary tattoos. They're decals that stick to the front teeth for hours, then come off easily. (Are we running out of body parts to adorn or what?) Flash your crush a toothy grin while wearing the heart tattoo; make your mom jump with the frog tattoo; or stick on a star, flower, happy face, butterfly or peace sign. Packs of 16 sell for under $5; start looking at Walgreens and other discount stores.

This column contains at least two surprising facts about the Menards Guy. If you watch TV, even only a little bit, you know who I mean: Hardware pitchman. Stocky. Gray hair. Blue golf shirt. Big voice. Black-rimmed glasses from the House of Harry Caray. Toothy, lopsided, spackle-eating grin. Always precedes the bluegrassy refrain "Save big money at Menards," that will now, because I have mentioned it, run on the tape loop in your brain all day. The ads in which he stars air approximately 50,000 times a week in the nine upper-Midwest states in which Menard Inc. operates its chain of 130 home-improvement stores.

When rock guitarist Eric Clapton fell in love with George Harrison's blond wife Patti Boyd, the two men fought an extraordinary duel to win her affections . . . with guitars. Long-haired Boyd, a top model of the `60s, had inspired both men to write several songs to her glory--such as Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" and his manically intense "Layla," which made Boyd go weak at the knees. Thus Clapton wrested Boyd away from Harrison, who decided it was time for a showdown. So he invited Clapton and Boyd to his Oxfordshire mansion for "proper conversation."

“There are so many times in my life,” filmmaker Rory Kennedy tells her sister Courtney in the movie “Ethel,” “where people have said, 'I want to introduce Robert Kennedy's daughter. ...” To which her sibling replies: “Oh, it makes me so mad! What about the one who delivered us and carried us for nine months and then has been with us the last 40 years?” “Ethel,” the HBO documentary debuting Thursday about the wife of Robert F. Kennedy (and the mother of their 11 children)

Name: Dan Rostenkowski Age: 57 Occupation: U.S. Representative from Chicago Years of service: 27 years, first elected to the U.S. House in November, 1958 Working on: Rostenkowski is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, frequently tangled in matters applying to the federal budget. This has brought him into the national spotlight. But the committee's most important current task, and Rostenkowski's, too, is the revision of the complicated federal tax code.

Following is a summary of current science news briefs. U.S. military's secret mini-shuttle lifts off from Florida 2012-12-11T190233Z_2_BRE8B500J_RTROPTC_0_US-SPACE-MILITARY.XML () - Yale names new toothy dinosaur Obamadon after smiling president 2012-12-11T200424Z_1_BRE8BA17T_RTROPTC_0_US-USA-DINOSAUR-OBAMA. XML () - Hawking and CERN scoop world's richest science prize LONDON (Reuters) - Stephen Hawking, the British cosmologist who urged people to "be curious" in the Paralympics opening ceremony, has landed the richest prize in science for his work on how black holes emit radiation.

Think back to an earlier time, before the current teenage world lost our little ponytails, dump trucks and chipper 6 a.m. enthusiasm on Christmas morning. It was the early `80s, and most of us fell in love with the big-eared, furry little Mogwai, Gizmo, in the movie "Gremlins." Despite its glassy-eyed star, the violence in "Gremlins" made it forbidden viewing for many a youthful eye. But now that we`re old enough to truly appreciate gremlins in the blender, "Gremlins 2 The New Batch" has made its debut.

There are some who insist Halloween has been almost as traditional as Thanksgiving, complete with ghosts, goblins and smiling, toothy pumpkins. That day is being celebrated two weeks early as the Joliet City Center Pumpkin Fest kicks off Friday for a three-day run that will include everything from hay rack rides, beer tastings, boat rides, bluegrass bands and scary displays. Friday's schedule in Van Buren Plaza in Joliet's downtown City Center will feature beer and food tents from 3 to 8 p.m., a scavenger hunt at 5:30 p.m., the Joliet Central High School homecoming parade at 6:30 p.m., a band on stage from 7 to 10:30 p.m. as well as an all-day farmer's market.